Sentence examples for pressing children from inspiring English sources
While supporters rejoiced and critics groused about the delay, proceedings started against a former Congolese warlord accused of war crimes, including pressing children younger than 15 into service and sending them to fight for him.
Years ago, the noted cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner, Ph.D. observed that pressing children to do too much too soon negatively affected learning.
Pressing children quite likely will create children and adults who consider reading a chore rather than a joy.
Other pressing child welfare issues have been put on hold as agencies and the government struggle to rehouse the stream of child survivors, despite an emergency rapid registration of potential carers.
The roundtable concluded that with many pressing child protection issues, it is of high importance to find out where to invest limited resources for maximum impact.
To address this issue at the community level in Senegal, community health workers are delivering a packet of services designed to meet the most pressing child-health needs.
Arriving in Katwiguru, he was immediately met by mothers pressing sick children on him.
Vast and unchartable forces: we don't like the idea of these very much, and so we dedicate ourselves to locating a cause — even a wrong cause will do — a need that becomes most pressing when children are involved.
The ICO said the organisation was pressing for children to be taught in school about the value and importance of their personal information and how to look after it.
Since her daughter's fall, Ms. Antonio and her children, who live in a public housing project in the Bronx, have been interviewed by the police and workers from the city's Administration for Children's Services, who she says swept through her home, taking pictures and pressing her children for information.
The wealth of the Church in Sicily was further enhanced by the tradition of pressing younger children of the aristocracy to enter monasteries and convents, in order to preserve the family estates from division; a large fee, or dowry, was usually paid to the Church to facilitate this, in the form of property, jewels, or money.
